vulnerability

Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2023-5217 Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Sep 28, 2023
Added
Sep 28, 2023
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx in Google Chrome prior to 117.0.5938.132 and libvpx 1.13.1 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)

Solution

google-chrome-upgrade-latest
Title
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